Technofunction

Vlc or Video Lan is one of the most popular and famous media player which supports almost all types of files including for DVDs, VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more. So it eliminates the need of keeping too many codecs since all the codecs are built in already in the Video Lan. One more distinguishable advantage of vlc is that it can detect and repair damage file for you which it does on demand. You can check for all the supported formats on there site.

To install the Vlc on Redhat, CentOS, Fedora simply use the below listed methods.

• Login as root
• # rpm -ivh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.$(uname -i).rpm
• # rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

• You also need to install yum-priorities, which is available in the CentOS v5 / 4 repositories:

#yum -y install yum-priorities

#yum check-update (the following command to test new repo)

# yum install vlc*

Yum will download all the dependencies and relevant files which are needed for using the vlc

• For installing vlc use RPM Fusion for F9, F10 and F11 (available for x86, x86_64, ppc and ppc64). You need to install rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm for F9, F10 and F-11.

# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum install vlc
# yum install mozilla-vlc (optionnal)

However, note that you might not be able to use the vlc player as root user this is because of the safety measures so just login as a user to play the media files.